Garment-closure.



A. ROSENFELD. GARMENT CLOSURE. APPLICATION FILED DEG.24,1910.

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THE NORRIS A. ROSENFELD.

GARMENT CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILEDDEO. 24, 1910.

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A. ROSBNFELD.

GARMENT CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 24, 1910.

Patented Oct. 20, 1914.

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Application filed December 24, 1910. Serial No. 599,083.

To all whom it-may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED .ROSENFELD, a subject of the German'Emperor, residing at Berlin, Germany, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Closure, of which the following is a specification. I

, This invention relates to a closing device for garments provided on opposite edges with spring buttons, hooks and eyes or similar fasteners. The device is so constructed that by being moved along the garment opening or slit on suitable guides, it will cause the opposed garment edges to be brought into superposition. In this way the coacting fastening members which are secured to the garmentat the same distance from said edges are forced into a closing engagement.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section of a garment closure embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 a side view of the slides; Fig. 3

a bottom view of the upper slide member; Fig. 3* aperspective'view of. the upper sllde member; Fig. 3" a perspective view of the lower slide member; Fig. 4 a detail of the spring button fastener; Fig. 5a detail of a modification of the guide rail, and Fig. 6, a bottom view of a modification of the closure.

The closure comprises essentially a top plate 1 having av bulged section 1? and an inwardly turned flange 1 Tothelower face of plate 1, there is secured. by lugs 5 and pintle 5, a second plate 2 which partly underlies bulged section 1 where it is provided with a slot 15. Plate 2 is separated at its left edge from the corresponding edge of flange 1 by a slot 2 having a laterally deflected end 2. At its right end plate 2 is turned downwardly and provided with tongues 9 engaging corresponding slits in a 0 third plate 4, the right hand portion of which underlies the corresponding portion of plate land is removably connected thereto by a knob 10 engaging a corresponding aperture 10 of a plate 1. Theleft hand portion of plate 4 is provided with forward and rearguide lugs 11, andwith apair of hinge knuckles 4 4 of which knuckle 4* depends a less distance from plate 4 than] knuckle. 4 To knuckles 4-, 4 there is hinged a bottom plate 3, by means of a pair of pintles 5 This plate is provided with a central inclined section AB between its Specification of Letters Patent.

comprising the parts 3 and 4 by .withdrawing the. connecting means 9 and'10." The upper garment flap 100 is providedwitha longitudinal fold 101 fixedby astay 6 which is permanently sewed into-the fold, so as to constitute a guide This guide is introduced through slot 2 intothe clearance between.

. along whichthe-upper slide membermay be T plates 1 and 2, and. thus constitutesa rail moved along. the upper garment fold. To garment flap is furthersecured a suit. able female fastening member such: as a rigid plate 13 provided with a button hole or elongated slot 18*. The guide lugs 11 which are inclined are designed to raise the button hole member. 13 betweenthe plates, 2. and 4, by projecting beneath .the; edge thereof, and forcing it upwardly during the movement oftheslide. Plate13'is so placedwith relation to the garment edge, that slot 13 extends at right angles tosuch edge.

The lower garment 102 is provided. with two similar guides comprising a pair of parallel folds 103, 104 containing-stays 7 and '8. To the fold 103 is attached a but ton or other male fastening member 14 adapted to engage button hole 13*. If desired fold 104 containing stay 8 may be omitted, the fold 103 with stay 7 being sufficient. To the lower side of the'bottom flap 102, there may be secured a number of transversely arranged reinforcing ribs 12.

When the slide constructed as described is moved along the flaps, the inclinedsection 'AB of the lower slide member will raise the lower garment flap facewise up toward the upper flap, so that the button 14 is well drawn into the button hole 13*, the passage 100 of thebutton through said hole being permitted by slot 15. After the. engagement between button and button hole has thus been effected, the obliquesection 2 of the upper slide member will draw the upper 105 garment flap laterally away from the lower garment flap, so that the button is drawn into the button hole slit.

In Fig. 5 is shown a modification ofthe 1 reinforcing stay inclosed within the garment Patented Oct. 20, 1914. Y

folds, the same being here shown to be 'l'nade 1n the form of a sinuous wire 205.

I wish it to be understood that for tong ventional snap buttons, inwhich the eye has no lateral elongation, the lateral movement of the slide members may be dispensed with in which case the lateral deflection 2 of slot 2 is dispensed with as illustrated in Fig. 6.

I claim: v

1. A garment closure comprising a slide having a fiatbottom plate that is slidably arranged below a fold located on the lower garment-flap, said slide being provided with longitudinal edges that engage the flapbulges and are adapted to superimpose the two elements of a snap button or other fiap j closure. v

2. A garment closure comprising a first member adapted to slidably engage a first garment-flap, a second member "carried by the first member and adapted to slidably envided with a contracted. section, a second member carried by the first member and adapted 'to slidably engage a second garment flap that extends below the first garm'ent flap and is provided with a male fastener, means on the second member for moving the garment-flaps face wise toward eacli other whereby the male fastener is brought into engagement with the female fastener, and means on the first member for moving the first garment-flap sidewise along the second garment-flap whereby the male ember carried by the first member, and

bentto recede facewise from the first member.

In a garment closure a first slide mem- 'ber comprising an upper plate in which is formed a ,slot having 'a laterally deflected section and a second plate having an opening, combined with a second slide member comprising a first plate that is removably secured to the first member, and a second plate having an inclined section that recedes facewise from the first member. v

6. In a garment closure a first slide member comprising an upper plate'in which is formed a slot having a laterally deflected section, said slot being adapted to engage a first folded garment fiap that carries a female fastening device, and a second plate secured to the first plate and having an opening adapted to expose said female fastening device, combined with a second slide member comprising a first plate that is removably secured to the first member, and a second plate hingedly secured to the first plate and having an inclined section, that recedes facewise from the first member, said last named second plate being adapted to engage a second folded garment flap that carries upon the fold a male fastening de vice adapted to cooperate with said female fastening device. v

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED ROSENFELD. Witnesses:

HENRY HASPER, ARTHUR SCHROEDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, addressing the Commissioner of iatents,

Washington, D. G. 

